V-2nd - 2: clocks and mirrors

[Ian Livingston]

Right. He may be a genius, but he ain't presenting anything new. From
The Sublime Object to The Parallax View, I find little that is new in
his work. He seems to be translating established ideas into academic
language. Of course, this is great for film theory, because film
rarely offers anything new, and his favorite, David Lynch films, while
intriguing to watch once or twice, offer no particularly needful
insights, in my opinion. I mean, nothing we didn't talk about as high
school kids on drugs....

Thanks for the translation. It does help to bolster some of my
feelings about the man. He needs his pedestal trimmed.

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Ian Livingston wrote:
>> I sure do wish I spoke German. Can't say how many times I've wished
>> that. I went looking for this quote in the English version and cannot
>> yet find it, so I'd love to see it in translation
>
> quick and dirty:
>
> "Mein Freund Peter, zum Beispiel, fucking Sloterdijk, ich mag ihn sehr,
> aber natürlich muss er in den Gulag. Aber er wird ein bisschen besser
> gestellt dort, vielleicht kann er Koch werden."
>
> approximately equals
>
> "My friend, Peter (for example) fucking Sloterdijk, I like him a lot,
> but of course he's got to be sent to the Gulag.  But he'd get a slightly better
> position there, maybe he can be a cook."
>
> one of the few other Zizek factoids I know is he turned down a position
> of cultural minister in some Eastern European nation, saying it was chief of the
> secret police or nothing for him...
>
> he might be a philosophical genius but the line I get from those 2 data points
> sure doesn't vector off in any direction I'm interested in...
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Yippy dippy dippy,
> Flippy zippy zippy,
> Smippy gdippy gdippy, too!
> - Thomas Pynchon ("'Zo Meatman's Gone AWOL")
>



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